Since the initial posting of this blog on 9-24-11 Harry David Hill has emerged from under the rock that serves as his home, had a bit part in a movie, and joined up with ILPDC for brief period as kind of a front man.

A brief stint touted by ILPDC as Hill’s mere presence would somehow ultimately lead to a clemency for fellow thug Leonard Peltier – I guess this was to be expected in way, the movie bit part and the brief tenure at ILPDOC considering Hill’s previous acting roles as the B grade Mr.X and hope to die AIM tough guy and “liberator”.

The “wisdom” of ILPDC embracing Hill in their full knowledge X was a lie escaped me and demonstrated they didn’t give a damn about the truth and even less when it came to perpetuating a lie, but apparently the light went on and Hill like Elvis left the building, although with noticeably less panache.

Below the original blog and link to comments made which are informative.

Hill’s name inevitably surfaces in any discussion concerning Annie or Ray-always a shadowy figure with what appears to be an inordinate amount of luck or friends in high places.

Not the sharpest tool in the shed I think with his laughable rendition of the mysterious Mr. X- Peltier’s wannabe fabricated homeboy coming to the rescue. But like the line from Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits:

Avoiding the scene has been a vocation-one he’s been adept at, no interviews, save the comical Mr. X skit, no bragging of deeds ala Peltier, no seeking the spotlight, movie career, or even a book. Not so much as a whimper-just another aged toothless predator who must now lay in wait for something to pass by.

No, the inimitable Hill prefers anonymity, and like Brando in On The Waterfront believes he could have been somebody-he could have been a contender.

If there is any comfort to be found in the midst of this lament perhaps solace will be present in the knowledge that he is somebody-a person of interest in ongoing and newly re-opened investigations.

Chin up “Mr. X”, the spotlight awaits, and along with the original audience a new generation is eager to hear the taking of the Fifth- but it ain’t over til it’s over. The Fifth, that device which to me so clearly speaks to and defines a multitude of things.

No Janklow this time to grant absolution-little if any wiggle room-wiggle room that can only be purchased at the expense of another, not for anything as mundane as thirty pieces of silver, rather testimony to indict others to save ones own sorry ass in that process known as immunity- an immunity from prosecution that replaces the communion wafer and leaves only the admonition to go and sin no more, lending credibility to the concept that indeed crime does pay at times.

I understand this process of bartering information for immunity, I understand that it is often an essential ingredient, a necessary evil- but I loathe the necessity of it. I loathe the fact that all it requires to escape justice is to assist in visiting it upon another regardless of how well deserved it might be.

A necessity created by the unwillingness of bit players, or good people stepping up to do the right thing- The right thing, once a standard, a tradition- now a tradition lost not all that long ago and facilitated by the beast AIM became, the rogues that populated it, and individuals like Harry David Hill, aka Mr.X. who ran in predatory packs that separated the vulnerable, taking them down while nipping at the heels and intimidating others into silence.

Silence IS consent, or as it is said in Latin, Qui tacet consentire videtur- a legal term that translates to giving consent to this thing. This thing of murder, of abduction, of rape, of burnings and bombings, looting, and outright theft and destruction. Of shooting an unarmed man and leaving him to die in a desperate rictus of indifference and being alone.

Silence has led to decades of grief and misery, murders, destruction and abuses on an epic scale-time to end that, time for all the people to remember who they are, where they came from, what it means, and above all to withhold consent, and in so doing resurrect honor and dignity.

How dead must a heart and spirit be to ignore, condone, or excuse such things as these? What degree of detachment, how great a fear, what code?

The passage of a few short years since this blog was posted hasn’t served to dampen down suspicions that the AIM leadership “snitched” as they like to say about the shooter of agents Williams and Coler, and no doubt other things as well.

Currently this belief can only be ascribed to suspicions, but if you walk around it a little examining events as they’ve played out the word strong should be add to suspicions for a number of reasons.

The heat was on and there were plenty of reasons to go after the AIM leadership – any number of reasons from wiretaps to co operating witnesses and assuredly under the federal RICO statutes routinely employed against criminal enterprises.

And yet nothing save for the low hanging and obvious fruit, and even that took years, decades. Nothing as in an “official” announcement by then soon to be outgoing USAG Holder that yes in fact AIM did kill Annie and Ray but the DOJ wasn’t really interested in “old cases”.

Vernon Bellecourt rushing to the feds with what he construed to be death threat shouldn’t surprise anyone, any more than the fact that Dave Hill was willing to make a deal and in fact got both federal and state charges dropped pertaining to an act of domestic terrorism in the bombing of Mt. Rushmore and a state weapons charge.

Are these guys just lucky or what? I think the or what is what it has really been about.

Then we also have Vernon’s younger brother Clyde getting busted as a major drug dealer, gets a light sentence and walks after a couple of years.

Clyde’s defense such as it was is that he did it for AIM – maybe that mollified the prosecutor and court ……. I mean after all it was for AIM and apparently didn’t matter how many lives were destroyed or how many addiction related crimes were committed.

It sure as hell didn’t matter to Clyde or AIM.

Now think about that for a moment – if you or I got busted for the same charge we’d have wound up busting rocks for years if not decades.

If you or I were complicit in the multiple murders AIM committed we would be pursued to the ends of the earth and it wouldn’t matter how long it took.

But not those fearless last real ndn “liberators” and “patriots.”

As crude as it may sound I had a friend who would say it isn’t know who but who you blow when an inequity defied explanation – in this instance it seems to have been who any in the leadership were willing to blow off, as in give up.

The AIM leadership has always been long on talk when it came to “colonization” and “colonial law” even while embracing every aspect of both from the drugs and alcohol, the scams and thefts, and of course “taking the fifth”.

I’ve offered the opinion on more than one occasion that I believe the strategy has been to allow the attrition of time to catch up with the leadership – that in their passing there won’t be anything left to do, no one to prosecute, case emphatically closed – looks to me like that’s the way it’s playing out.

Below the original post and link to comments:Hell of a note for a man to have his pots stolen as has been reported on the net regarding Banks and his syrup venture. Don’t know what the world’s coming to.I thought for sure justice would be pursued in the “traditional way”as the call was floated to do so in the case of Annie Mae-but I must have been delusional to think so.Bank’s has offered a thousand dollar reward and demanded a full investigation-I guess maybe it can be spun as progress that an indigenous person has the where with all to be able to offer a reward in the first place, but since a similar offer has never been made regarding information concerning the murder of the woman he loved so much, Annie Mae, it doesn’t strike me as being sweet. A couple of pots are replaceable-the same can’t be said for Annie.

I would draw the readers attention to the five thirty four mark in the below video where Minnie Two Shoes in discussing the interrogation of Annie Mae Aquash by Leonard Peltier clearly states that she and Iris ThunderCloud had been likewise interrogated “by the same people”.

The obvious reference is to Peltier, Robideau, and Butler, Annie’s antagonists.

Minnie’s statement is inclusive, though she doesn’t specify who was the lead interrogator, but it seems reasonable to me to assume it was Peltier, who seemed to enjoy bullying women.

It is yet another example of how fraudulent the effort is to portray Peltier as something other than what he is, and that is mostly notably a proven liar, an errand boy, and a cheap thug.

I had the good fortune to meet Minnie a few times and engage in conversations with her. She was one of kind- a rapier like wit that could literally have you rolling on the floor accompanied by a depth of understanding and commitment that would rivet your attention-she was a good woman worthy of respect, a woman who cared deeply and not given to lying.

Occasionally someone will appear in what is known as blackface, a cosmetic application mimicking African Americans, a display assured to raise a hue and cry- I submit that the same hue and cry should be raised over the cosmetic makeover to portray Leonard Peltier as being a warrior or in any way representative of the beliefs of, or who the nations are.

Peltier has assumed a role, and had decades of coaching and rehearsal- it is a shabby performance at best riddled with his own miscues archived in interviews and videos across the internet and in the public domain.

The denial of Leonard Peltier’s parole goes far beyond tales of being a political prisoner or some heroic figure fighting off a planned invasion with the Jumping Bull area being the beach head.

The heart of the matter begins with the crimes committed, the abortive escape attempt when another life was lost, and the attempt by Peltier to have it both ways – stymied by the facts and his very own words, including those of fellow compatriots like Dino Butler who exposed the Mr.X lie for being what it was.

Doesn’t help that attorneys have come and gone through the revolving LPDOC/ILPDC doors and now assist others seeking closure for the murder of Perry Ray Robinson jr or support the survivors of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash.

Didn’t help that a one time director of LPDOC and Peltier cousin, Robert Robideau, said he’d had enough, quit his position, and moved to Spain.

It doesn’t help either that a man who claims to be all things but what he is while authoring numerous complaints about his treatment in federal prison refuses to release both his parole board and disciplinary hearing records.

All things considered if what emanates from Peltier, ILPDC, and his supporters has any validity at all you’d think they’d be in favor of such a release.

But they aren’t, and for the same reasons Peltier isn’t – they understand it could knock the wheels off the medicine show wagon – no more elixir to sell, no more donations, and for certain the abandonment of calls for clemency by more than a few.

A number of celebrities have signed on in an “I will” promotion, meaning they will support clemency, but I wonder how many would step up and say I will when support is asked for Peltier to sign off and release what every supporter has a right to know?

It’s an exercise in futility to ask a Pelterite to offer their opinion in this blog about why he won’t or why he shouldn’t if they don’t feel he should – nonetheless the comment section is open if they care to.

I suspect that somewhere in those parole hearing records the name of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash is to be found – and while I make no claim, nor does anyone else I am aware of, that Peltier had a physical presence when she was abducted, raped, and murdered I haven’t a single doubt he was aware of the events from front to back and had input into the decision.

“I am very hopeful and will raise my voice in any way.” Robert Redford

The above statement by Redford in 2014 related to clemency for Leonard Peltier.

I am an advocate for raising one’s voice, in taking a stand, but I also believe in doing so it should be for valid reasons.

The media characterized this statement along with others made by Redford in an op ed as a renewal of commitment – but I question such a commitment when it fails to acknowledge additional issues surrounding Peltier and incriminating statements made by Peltier himself over the years.

In Redford’s “documentary” titled Incident at Oglala much was made in part of “conspiracies” and the now infamous Mr.X – both presented as fact, and yet the years have shown X was an outright fabrication.

A fabrication perpetuated both by Redford’s unwillingness to address it and Peltier’s historical references to the “truth” of X and what a standup “brother” he was.

If in fact X did exist, which former Peltier attorney Kuzma publicly admitted he did not, the question could only arise how could a stand up brother allow a person who is “innocent” to remain imprisoned and do the time for them?

Then there’s the story about a warrant for Jimmy Eagle that led to agents Williams and Coler being on the rez that was about the theft of an “old pair of boots” as though the feds have jurisdiction over what would amount to a misdemeanor or low grade felony when they did not.

Indeed a pair of boots was stolen, but the warrant was about much more than that, it was about assault and unlawful detention among other things.

I don’t believe Redford has ever addressed the Peltier at gunpoint interrogation of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash or the high probably of her murder being related to Peltier’s boasting in front of her that he had indeed executed at close range at least one of the agents.

No mention was made either of the Wisconsin warrant for Peltier I am convinced led Peltier to believe when Williams and Coler showed up they were after him and precipitated their murder, certainly such things as mentioned would be germane to character and the events that followed.

Nothing, not a single shred of evidence has ever emerged either they or the feds were aware of Peltier’s presence.

If Redford sees himself as a documentarian an obvious subject would be the murder of Annie, Perry Ray Robinson jr. or the destruction of WK2 – but then such a documentary would seriously devalue his previous effort and raise a lot questions.

Peltier isn’t the victim in all this, the survivors of his victims are as are the survivors of AIM’s many victims like Annie’s family and daughters Denise and Debbie who inherited their mother’s warrior spirit and fight on.

In a very real sense Peltier has made victims of his own family in no less a way than AIM has victimized the nations.

It would be one thing if Redford or other Peltier supporters acknowledged the discrepancies in the midst of their support, failing to do so could easily be interpreted as indifference, or an effort to save face.

I get asked at times what my opinion is about the feds at WK2, do I think they acquitted themselves in an entirely lawful manner?

My response is always the same – no I don’t, but I also won’t allow that to turn my attention away from the murders AIM committed.

The feds lost credibility the minute they opted to back Dick Wilson and his corrupt tribal government.

I’ve heard an argument that they were constrained to as Wilson’s was the “legally” and “duly elected administration”.

Maybe in the strictest of interpretations that’s an argument that can be advanced – the problem in doing so is that precedents exist where the feds have gone after corrupt politicians and Wilson and his administration were undeniably corrupt.

But as is always the case politics make strange bedfellows, especially when a shared “enemy” and common goals exist.

I usually ask in such a conversation if the individual I’m talking with lives in D.C. or in the Hoover building, when they reply no I then follow up with if a murder or murders is committed in either location or in their own neighborhood/ community which would they prioritize?

Inevitably the answer is in their own backyard – I tend to think that’s a response just about anyone would give.

That’s just about anyone, the exceptions would be those who have an agenda …. enter the AIM/ Peltier supporters.

Their goal is to convince everyone to look anywhere but their own backyard, and no lie too blatant to advance toward that end.

I think people need to be concerned not only about local, regional, and national issues but global ones as well.

And that concern needs to begin in the immediacy of where they are and what will impact them within that location.

Climate change and pollution affect everyone regardless of where they are – obviously that should be a concern.

Crime does as well, but it hits home if it occurs in proximity rather than across town, across the state, or across the nation.

People don’t want murderers, thieves, rapists, and liars in their communities, something easy to understand – but if as an indigenous person you say the same while pointing your finger at AIM and or Peltier then for some the dynamic somehow changes and you’re a sellout or fed.

Labels such as these don’t phase me, because as I say they are agenda driven, and a pretty transparent agenda at that.

The manner in which I live my life is my validation, not flying AIM’s rag banner or sticking a feather in my hair and calling myself a warrior.

I am validated by family, friends, and the ancestry that define me – not the words of drones, trolls, or wannabe warriors.

I don’t expect that to resonate with everyone but it isn’t as though I actually care if it does or not.

And so I say as I always have – everyone with any measure of complicity in the sum total of crimes committed at WK2 needs to be held to account, and I don’t give damn what nation they are from, what persona they’ve cultivated, or any government agency they may represent.

The feds had informants within AIM, some among the hierarchy, but I don’t believe for a moment they authorized the murder of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash, Perry Ray Robinson jr., Buddy Lamont, or any of the WK2 victims laying in unmarked graves – the AIM leadership is responsible for that and they need to be held to account unless a person thinks cold blooded murder is acceptable or can present a single shred of evidence that “the feds did it”.

I don’t believe there was a “planned invasion” of Jumping Bull consisting of two men armed with short range revolvers, in fact I believe anyone who does is a fool.

Roque Duenas was of the Yaqui nation-not as well know a tribe as others but with a history of their own. They were not federally recognized as a distinct nation until 1978.

A little less than two years after Peltier’s escape from Lompoc Federal prison Roque Duenas and his nephew Henry Davis are murdered from what appears to be blows to their heads.

Davis’ body is found in 1981 along with a capsized boat they were fishing in-it isn’t until 1994 that Duenas body is discovered and identified.

A few stories have been floated about who the killer was and the motivation- one being a crazed fellow fisherman and the fact that Vernon Bellecourt considered Duenas to be an informant-another example of AIM’s musical chairs informant lottery.

It has been said that Duenas was involved with Peltier’s escape-I have no way of knowing if that has any validity or not, and it’s difficult to sift through the red herrings AIM and the Peltierites are noted for tossing out.

But a singular fact remains and stands out -Duenas had been labelled an informant by Vernon and AIM had issued a statement of giving a thirty day amnesty for any who were or suspected of being to step forward and identify themselves.

That statement was issued with a codicil that upon the expiration of the amnesty period AIM would take care it of themselves.

A bold statement issued as a death threat with no apparent legal consequence.

Interesting that Vernon made the comment on several occasions that he believed Annie and Roque to be the infamous informants known as A and B.

Another singular fact remains-Annie was also labelled an informant and likewise wound up dead.

“The Creator made ocean animals and allowed some to emerge onto land. Some evolved into a short human form: the Surem. These are the early ancestors of the Yaquis. The Surem lived in a time out of mind and were a peace-loving, gentle people who had no need for government. Life in the Sonoran desert was a harmonious perfection for the Surem until God spoke through a little tree and prophesied about new horticultural techniques, Christianity, savage invaders, and disunity. The Surem became frightened about parts of this message and transformed into taller, defensive farming people called Yaquis (Hiakim) or Yo’emem (The People)”

The People-the nations have always referred to themselves as the people, or human beings-yet since the arrival of Columbus have seldom been treated as though we are. We are The People, human beings-it is imperative we remember that and act as such.